November 5, 2006, Sunday

WESTCHESTER has at least two seemingly insurmountable problems, and one man who has chosen to put himself in the thankless thick of both. The problems in question are the Westchester Medical Center and the Yonkers school system, both of which...

''Coach Carter,'' a movie about a man who stood at the intersection of sports and academic performance and took a splashy stand, is based on a true story, which is to say that, like most real-life dramas that reach the screen, it sprang from a media...